raevol on 31/7/2009 at 03:57

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So after going to comic con recently I'm feeling pretty depressed about my decision to go all linux. I want to play games again... I'm curious, what projects are out there, similar to OpenMW and OpenDarkEngine, that are porting commercial games to linux? I am especially interested in finished projects, but any and all projects are welcome.

Also, why does PrBoom suck so much (how do I change my resolution), and why can't I find a Quake port? Used to play fuQuake on windows, but I can't find anything similar for linux?

Volca on 31/7/2009 at 06:56

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Wikipedia has a list of the rewrites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_engine_recreation) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_engine_recreation

Quake engine runs natively on linux and many versions are provided, it depends on your distro which you get (I have about 5-10 different versions of it on Gentoo). Also be sure to try Wine, as Haplo suggests, it may just work for you (It should get a lot more interesting after Gallium3D replaces the current D3D->OpenGL translation, in the years to come).

Overall, gaming on GNU/linux has a great mileage in front of it to become something to talk about, shamefully - transition to linux is not usually totally painless anyway - but at least you get a freedom of choice.

Volca on 31/7/2009 at 08:33

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Surprisingly there seems to be next to no .deb packages for quake games!

anyway, (http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/) Nexuiz is one of the good quake engine games (free including content) - installation here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Nexuiz) https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Nexuiz. Search for quake on this wiki, there are other quake engine installation guides (although quick and dirty).